Rockies will be targeting "best prospect available"

Rockies scouting director Bill Schmidt is more likely to cut off his own hand than tip it for insights into his baseball draft secrets. "You can ask," he said, "but I'm not going to say anything."

But even Schmidt, in his 16th year in charge of scouting first-year players for the Rockies in Major League Baseball's annual draft, might not be lying when he says the Rockies are still looking at a long list of names for the No. 3 pick Monday when the two-day draft kicks off in New York.

"It's different in this draft," he said. "There's no real clear-cut guy. This draft has some depth. There are good players. But they're not the top-end guys necessarily. And that creates some uncertainty."

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